brass tilly

I dreamt that I was in an older Dutch lady's house. She was very proper but very nice. She wanted something fixed... wanted something called a tilly, but what she meant was a screw. In this country they didn't have traditional screws. I looked and looked through the drawers in the garage connected to the house.  I was looking for what a tilly might look like. I went back to a cabinet and other furniture to see what connected them. What I saw was brass flat things. They looked like just a flat piece of brass with prongs like a stud you might put on clothing. That didn't seem like what she was looking for. I felt the brass things was more like something to hide the top of a screw. I looked some more to see what tools might be used on a tilly and found a compressed paper tool that looked like a screw driver, but I knew that would crumble apart if it was used. I think I ended up finding something and went back into the house. The house was dark and the furniture was dark. I was thinking of the lady and if she was coming home soon, but I was running late for work, so I would get back to this later.